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Monday, October 1, 2012

FrightFall Read-a-Thon: Starting Line #FrightFall

Welcome to the starting line! Be sure to sign in here, at the beginning or when you start reading. Remember, you do not have to have a blog to join us. You can sign in linking to Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads...wherever you will be updating from. And you don't have to start at the beginning. Start on any day this week, or if you're working all week, join us for the weekend. People can sign in up until Friday night at 11:59pm CST. I'll be stopping by and visiting you so I hope you will have your book piles/reading lists posted. *hint hint* Make sure at least one book is a scary one. Also, a reminder that I'm allowing children's books for those of you who have kids...with one condition...five picture books equal one novel. Sound fair? Middle grade novels can count as one book.Join us on Twitter using the hashtag #FrightFall.We are going to have four Twitter chats this week. I had to tweak the times on the evening chats because I'm usually not home until around 5-5:30pm CST through the week. I tried to have a good variance of time. Hope one of the slots will work for everyone. Here's the Twitter chat schedule:Wednesday from 5:30 to 6:30pm CSTFriday from 6:30 to 7:30pm CSTSaturday from 10am to 11am CSTSunday from 1 to 2pm CSTAt other odd times on Twitter, we might even have some reading sprints throughout the week. There won't be any prizes if/when we do, but you will get bragging rights. Just remember to have fun this week. Again, my read-a-thon credo is "a week of relaxed reading during which we can personally challenge ourselves and whittle away those ever looming TBR piles/shelves/libraries." I have done away with mini-challenges so we can focus more on the reading, but please do stop by and visit your fellow read-a-thon-ers if you get a chance...and again, we will also be on Twitter for social interaction. =O)PRIZES/GIVEAWAYS

I will have the prize and giveaway page posted during the day on Monday so come back here to find it (sad to say, not as many prizes this time). I will also have easy access links at the top of the blog. There are going to be a couple of easy mini-challenges with prizes hosted by two of our participants. I will indicate next to the blog below if the challenge is live or not. Thanks, ladies!

Melissa at Must Read FasterLIVE NOW!Okay, I think that's about it. I hope you all have fun this week. If you have any questions, please leave me a comment below. I will be posting my updates at my horror blog, Castle Macabre, so stop by and visit me. Happy Reading!SIGN IN HERE:

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I'm hoping this will help with my reading slump. Not sure how much time I will be able to put in, due to working, but am going to try. Good Luck to all participating. And thank you Michelle for hosting!!!

Sorry I didn't get this up yesterday, but I already had way too much posting on the first! Before blogging, I had no clue that there were other readers out there who loved reading scary books, especially in October, as much or even more than I do! But that's what I love about FrightFall! Thanks for hosting the awesome event, and the blog design looks fantastic!

I linked to my regular reading recap post since I mentioned the books I hope to read for the readathon this week. I've gotten a very slow start, but hope to really get some reading done on the weekend.

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This is the dedicated blog for the seasonal read-a-thons and other events hosted by Michelle @ The True Book Addict and Castle Macabre. All four read-a-thons will be hosted and coordinated on this blog. I will also post about events I'm hosting on my other blogs. Thank you for joining me here!

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Mom of two boys...the most important in my life. Avid reader and book collector...my personal library numbers over 3000 books; the fiction count is now at 2000+. Book reviewer and writer. Major history buff. Book buying enthusiast who can be found frequently at used books stores and library sales. Blogging addict...find my numerous blogs listed below.